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  • Renowned Researchers Highlight Holocaust Studies at 54th Annual Scholars’ Conference February 28, 2024 -

    The Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas will host two internationally-renowned researchers of genocide, human rights, and the Holocaust for the 54th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches (ASC).

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  • Global Cinematic Extravaganza Arrives at UT Dallas with Hispanx / Latinx Film Festival March 23, 2023 -

    The Hispanx / Latinx Film Festival unveiled a three-day cinematic showcase at UT Dallas, spotlighting screenings of a diverse range of Latin American and Spanish productions spanning numerous genres. The motion picture gathering – made possible with support of School of Arts, Humanities and Technology (AHT) faculty, The UT Dallas Center for US-Latin America Initiatives […]

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  • Never Again A section of the Dachau concentration camp, including the guard tower, is seen through the barbed wire fence shortly after the camp was liberated by American soldiers on April 29, 1945. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Francis Robert Arzt) June 15, 2022 -

    For 35 years the Holocaust Studies Program at UT Dallas has been a beacon of scholarship and enlightenment regarding one of the most traumatic events in human history. From 1933 to 1945, Jewish citizens and others who lived in countries throughout Europe were rounded up and killed in Nazi concentration camps. Among the 6 million […]

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  • UT Dallas Remembers Transformational Leader Dr. Hobson Wildenthal Hobson Wildenthal September 8, 2021 -

    Nearly 30 years ago, Dr. Hobson Wildenthal stepped onto The University of Texas at Dallas campus as the chief academic officer for the University. His influence over the next three decades would affect every aspect of the institution — from the sciences to the arts, from business affairs to campus architecture and landscaping, to the […]

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  • Couple’s Gift to Center for Values Focuses on Human Side of Medicine From left: Dr. Matthew Brown, director of the Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology; Kathy Stone and Dr. Marvin Stone; and Dr. Magdalena Grohman, associate director of the Center for Values. August 26, 2021 -

    With a leadership gift to UT Dallas’ Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology, a local doctor and his wife hope to encourage students to focus on the human side of medicine. Dr. Marvin Stone, chief emeritus of hematology and oncology at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas and a clinical professor in the UT Dallas […]

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  • Ming Dong Gu Publishes “Fusion of Critical Horizons in Chinese and Western Language, Poetics, Aesthetics” Fusion of Critical Horizons in Chinese and Western Language Poetics Aesthetics July 26, 2021 -

    Professor Gu‘s latest monograph begins with a reflection on dichotomies in comparative studies of Chinese and Western literature and aesthetics. Critiquing an oppositional paradigm, Ming Dong Gu argues that despite linguistic and cultural differences, the two traditions share much common ground in critical theory, aesthetic thought, metaphysical conception, and reasoning. Focusing on issues of language, […]

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  • Supporters Contribute Record Breaking Amounts During Comets Giving Days UTD Student Giving Day Ambassadors June 7, 2021 -

    Donors to The University of Texas at Dallas continued to break records during the fifth annual Comets Giving Days on May 26 and 27. Nearly $1.4 million was raised from more than 2,800 gifts to benefit over 100 campus groups. The single largest gift came from Marilyn and Jerry Comer MS’77. The couple contributed $500,000 […]

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  • Photographer Pictures UTD as New Home for Collection Carolyn Brown has gifted her photography archive, containing thousands of images, to the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at UT Dallas. March 24, 2021 -

    After 50 years of capturing the beauty of important cultural spaces around the world, photographer Carolyn Brown has committed to leave her entire life’s work to the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at The University of Texas at Dallas. The collection includes thousands of images of the Middle East, Mexico, the Southwest and Dallas. […]

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  • Medical, Ethics Experts Discuss COVID-19 Vaccine Fears, Facts at UT Dallas Event Vaccines February 24, 2021 -

    Medical and ethics experts on a panel hosted recently by The University of Texas at Dallas acknowledged the fears that some people have about the COVID-19 vaccines, but urged individuals to seek out reliable, factual information. “There’s often an echo chamber effect where people raise their concerns among people in their community who are not […]

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  • Alumna Turns Translations Studies Education into Project Management Career Stacey Knepp January 12, 2021 -

    After receiving her bachelor’s degree in humanities from Bucknell University, Stacey Knepp MA’09 knew she wasn’t done with the work she had started as an undergraduate. “I had taken numerous years of ancient Greek, translating Greek text,” Knepp said. “UTD was one of a few universities in the country offering a graduate-level program in translation […]

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